marron12

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[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah. The voice stays young if you take care of it and are healthy. You can be 60 and sound like 30.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's not exactly the same for me, but it's pretty close. Sometimes it's a little more faded. Just depends on what it is. Sound, on the other hand, I can picture that loud and clear.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, she does have a great purr. Sounds kind of like a diesel engine :)

I don't think I've seen a petting technique quite like yours. Maybe one of these days I'll get a chance to try it out. The cats let you pet them for so long!

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The one around here makes a noise like this one right at the start of the video. It's pretty loud. It's not the screechiest sound I've heard. But then again, saw whets don't really sound like a saw to me.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just found out that these guys live in my area. Well, they can, anyway. I don't know how close they get to urban areas. But there are some woods around, and I heard what I'm pretty sure was a screech owl the other night.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like it even put on safety squints. It does blend in pretty well though. Better than the other one :)

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Beautiful bird. Such long wings and powerful looking feet. I wouldn't want to get too close to those talons.

You can see the fringe on the front edge of her wings. I forgot if you said that helps them fly silently.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He said, "Sag mal, wie lange wollt ihr bei dem Scheiß bleiben?" He said the problem was that Trump was rambling (this part of the speech was unscripted). Article is in German. Here's a partial translation by DeepL, tweaked by me:

His interjection should not be interpreted as a political statement. "No, that would be completely wrong. The political content is not the problem,“ says Deja, adding: ”I interpret all the time for people whose political statements I don't agree with. The problem with Trump was that he suddenly started associating freely or saying the same thing three times in a row. The difficulty when interpreting is following these confusing leaps of thought." He explains: "If a speaker has organized thoughts, then as soon as the sentence has started, you can roughly guess what will come next. You can keep surfing that wave. But that's impossible with Trump."

I believe it, because simultaneous interpreting is really hard, intense work. You have to listen, remember it word for word, understand it, and give an accurate, natural sounding translation pretty much instantly. You have to try to convey the tone, understand cultural differences, and figure out how to say things that just don't translate well. It's so much work that interpreters often work in teams so they can relieve each other every 30 minutes or so.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Officers or prosecutors withheld the existence of multiple witnesses and police reports, including one of an attempted armed robbery at a gas station across the street from the furniture store within hours of the murders. The original judge also behaved inappropriately, the lawyers say, getting a doctor to prescribe Valium to a holdout juror, who only then voted to convict.

Withholding evidence is not that uncommon, unfortunately, but it looks like it was especially bad in this case. And giving Valium to a juror is an egregious overreach. The full details of what happened are even worse than it sounds at first glance.

She was under a lot of pressure because she wanted to talk about the evidence and the other jurors didn't. They yelled at her and heckled her, basically, until she fainted. The judge finds out and says it's no problem. Defense lawyer asks for a mistrial, gets turned down. Juror says she doesn't need a doctor. Then the judge makes a phone call, in secret, and gets her doctor to give her Valium. Enough that the other jurors thought she was "floating."

The worst part is, the Florida supreme court saw no problem with that. They said it wasn't judicial misconduct, it was just the judge being concerned and looking out for her.

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think I've seen anyone else go to the trouble of posting in a language they didn't know. Pretty cool! Or in Romanian, you could call that "concrete" (as in the building material).

[–] marron12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure I have better than average hearing, and it does get a little tiring sometimes. Whether it's high-pitched background noise, or turning on the good equipment and listening to something I like. It's work to process a lot of sound.

I like researching things, seeing the pictures, and reading the stories here. Always a small highlight that brightens my day. Had some headaches too this week, not fun. Hope you feel better soon :)

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